BiographyRalph M. Kennel was born in 1955 at Kaiserslautern (Germany). In 1979 he got his diploma degree and in 1984 his Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Kaiserslautern.

From 1983 to 1999 he worked on several positions with Robert BOSCH GmbH (Germany). Until 1997 he was responsible for the development of servo drives. Dr. Kennel was one of the main supporters of VECON and SERCOS interface, two multi-company development projects for a microcontroller and a digital interface especially dedicated to servo drives. Furthermore he took actively part in the definition and release of new standards with respect to CE marking for servo drives.

Between 1997 and 1999 Dr. Kennel was responsible for "Advanced and Product Development of Fractional Horsepower Motors" in automotive applications. His main activity was preparing the introduction of brushless drive concepts to the automotive market.

From 1994 to 1999 Dr. Kennel was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England, UK). From 1999 - 2008 he was Professor for Electrical Machines and Drives at Wuppertal University (Germany). Since 2008 he is Professor for Electrical Drive systems and Power Electronics at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany). His main interests today are: Sensorless control of AC drives, predictive control of power electronics and Hardware-in-the-Loop systems.

Dr. Kennel is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IET (former IEE) and a Chartered Engineer in the UK. Within IEEE he is Treasurer of the Germany Section as well as Distinguished Lecturer and ECCE Global Partnership Chair of the Power Electronics Society (IEEE-PELS).Dr. Kennel has received in 2013 the Harry Owen Distinguished Service Award from IEEE-PELS.Dr. Kennel has significant experience in evaluating and accrediting University courses according to German, European and International Accreditation programs. He is a member of the ASiiN Commission for Program Accreditation deciding on several dozens of courses from German Universities. Besides that Dr. Kennel has got international experience by accrediting courses at Sana’a University (Yemen), Hanoi University of Technology (Vietnam) and Can Tho University (Vietnam). He has experience with Middle European University system as well as with the British University system.

Hatten Hotel Melaka, Malaysia, 28-29 November 20162016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Power and Energy

PECON2016

Up to the present the control of electrical power using power converters has been based on the principle of mean value, using pulse width modulation with linear controllers in a cascaded structure. Recent research works have demonstrated that it is possible to use Predictive Control to control electrical energy with the use of power converters, without using modulators and linear controllers. This is a new approach that will have a strong impact on control in power electronics in coming decades. The main advantages of predictive control are: • Concepts are very intuitive and easy to understand. • It can be applied to a great variety of systems. • The multivariable case can be easily considered. • Dead times can be compensated. • Easy inclusion of non-linearities in the model. • Simple treatment of constraints. • The resulting controller is easy to implement. • This methodology is open to include modifications and extensions depending on specific applications. The participants of this keynote will learn: • The basic concepts and ideas. • Different types of predictive controllers. • Detailed examples of predictive controllers.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralph Kennel Technische Universität München

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Keynote SpeakerPredictive Control – the Powerful Method to Control Power Converters and Drives in the FutureTitle

BiographyHugh Rudnick is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research activities and publications focus in the market and economic aspects of the electrical power sector and other power-engineering subjects, with more than three hundred articles in indexed publications and international technical conferences. He has supervised more than eighty graduate and undergraduate students in the energy field, creating a permanent network of exchange of expertise and knowledge. He was elected as 2000 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) "For contributions to electric power sector deregulation in Latin America" (the first Chilean Fellow), as well as full member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering. His contributions have served as reference for power deregulation processes taking place in other parts of the world.

Dr. Rudnick has contributed extensively to the development of energy public policy in Chile and Latin America, based on his research and professional experience. He is often requested by the Chilean government to provide his technical support to initiatives being assessed. On May 2011 he was asked by the President and the Minister of Energy to form part of an advisory committee to propose recommendations for the future development of the national electrical system, facing critical problems. He later advised directly the President on several specific market issues. On March 2014 he was asked by the incoming Minister of Energy to advise him on a new Energy Agenda, which he helped to design. He was also asked to lead the definition of a new regulation for electric transmission, work done from 2014 to 2015 and which resulted in a new law presented to the National Congress on August 2015. Outside Chile, he helped the Mexican Energy Ministry, along with Harvard Professor William Hogan, from 2013 to 2014, to define the global foundation concepts of the Mexican electricity market deregulation.

Dr. Rudnick leads a consulting company, Systep Engineering and Design, which he created in Chile in 1989, highly specialized in the field of technical and economic studies of the energy sector (electricity and gas). He has done consulting with companies and governments in North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia, as well as with the UNDP, UNCTAD and the World Bank.

Rudnick is a Civil Electrical Engineer from Universidad de Chile and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy from The Victoria University of Manchester, Great Britain.

Hatten Hotel Melaka, Malaysia, 28-29 November 20162016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Power and Energy

PECON2016

Electrical distribution companies, being network industries, transport and distribute electric power from connection points of the transmission system to end consumers for industrial and residential usage at appropriate voltage levels. This activity is organized in public service utilities that buy power supply from generators. A growing challenge in the restructuring of the electrical sector, where competition is introduced in the generation area, is to achieve equivalent efficiencies in the electrical distribution service, an activity that develops in a monopolistic environment. To regulate electrical distribution, most Latin-American countries that have implemented this transformation have adopted a “benchmark” scheme, using the concept of an efficient company which is a company that is adapted to demand and that operates under an optimal investment and operations plan. Under this scheme, to force companies to be efficient, the regulator fixes prices according to the costs of an efficient company (Capex, Opex, losses and non-supplied energy), designed from square one and without considering actual companies. The real company will get a normal profitability only if it is capable of emulating the efficient company, reducing its operating and investment expenditure, thus minimizing the present value of its costs. In general, this regulation, which introduces a virtual competition, has implied a reduction trend in distribution tariffs, obtained through a regulated periodic process. The keynote will describe the benchmark regulation in Latin America power distribution, evaluate the results, and assess what can be learned from that experience, and the challenges that may arise in the future, particularly with the arrival of distributed generation.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hugh RudnickPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Keynote SpeakerIncentive Regulation in the Distribution IndustryTitle